Quotes Temple Growing Up Quotes

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

Aaron Neville

Musician

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

Adam Sandler

Actor

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Adam Sandler

Actor

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

Alan Dean Foster

Author

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Alice Hoffman

Author

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Alison Bechdel

Cartoonist

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Allen Iverson

Athlete

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Allison Janney

Actress

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

Amanda Seyfried

Actress

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

Amber Tamblyn

Actress

I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

Amy Poehler

Comedian

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Amy Sedaris

Actress

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

Annette Funicello

Actress

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

Anthony Holden

Journalist

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

Anthony Michael Hall

Actor

Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream.

Antoine Fuqua

Director

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

Arthur Hertzberg

Theologian

Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.

Ashlee Simpson

Musician

I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

Benny Green

Musician

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Beverley Mitchell

Actress

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

Beverly Cleary

Author

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Beverly Cleary

Author

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

Bill Ford

Businessman

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

Bob Balaban

Actor

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

Bobby McFerrin

Musician